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Tattoo Recognition Score Card: How Institutions Handled Unethical Biometric Surveillance Dataset

Tattoo Recognition Score Card: How Institutions Handled Unethical Biometric Surveillance Dataset

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItNo response to our request Center for Data InnovationNo response to our request St. Louis Crime Strategies Unit, St. Louis Circuit Attorney's OfficeStanford could find no remaining evidence of the dataset and the Research Compliance Office (RCO) was informed of our letter. Share ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages on its servers for as long as your workspace exists, Slack is now giving free workspace admins the option to...

March 17, 2020
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The Foilies 2020

The Foilies 2020

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItCourtesy of the National Security ArchiveShare ItEach year during Sunshine Week (March 13-19), The Foilies serve up tongue-in-cheek "awards" for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock combine forces to collect horror stories about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records...We are now accepting submissions for The Foilies 2022, the annual project to give tongue-in-cheek awards to the...

March 15, 2020
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Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data

Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItLocation data generated from our cell phones paint an incredibly of our movements and private lives. Despite the sensitive nature of this data and a federal law prohibiting cellphone carriers from disclosing it, repeated unauthorized disclosures over the last several years show that carriers will sell this sensitive information to almost .With cellphone carriers brazenly violating their customers’ privacy and the Federal Communication Commission , it fell to consumers to protect themselves. That’s why in June 2019...

April 14, 2021
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Even with Changes, the Revised PACT Act Will Lead to More Online Censorship

Even with Changes, the Revised PACT Act Will Lead to More Online Censorship

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAmong the dozens of bills introduced last Congress to amend a key internet law that protects online services and internet users, the (PACT Act) was perhaps the only serious attempt to tackle the problem of a handful of dominant online services hosting people’s expression online.Despite the PACT Act’s good intentions, EFF the original version because it created a censorship regime by conditioning the legal protections of 47 U.S.C. § 230 (“Section 230”) on a platform’s ability to remove user-generated content that...

March 26, 2021
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Facebook’s Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee

Facebook’s Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAs Mark Zuckerberg tries to sell Congress on Facebook’s preferred method of amending the federal law that serves as a , lawmakers must see it for what it really is: a self-serving and cynical effort to cement the company’s dominance.In submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee before a Thursday hearing, Zuckerberg proposes amending 47 U.S.C. § 230 (“Section 230”), the federal law that generally protects online services and users from liability for hosting user-generated content...

March 25, 2021
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The Foilies 2021

The Foilies 2021

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItEach year during Sunshine Week (March 13-19), The Foilies serve up tongue-in-cheek "awards" for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock combine forces to collect horror stories about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records...We are now accepting submissions for The Foilies 2022, the annual project to give tongue-in-cheek awards to the officials and institutions that behave badly (or...

March 14, 2021
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The SAFE Tech Act Wouldn't Make the Internet Safer for Users

The SAFE Tech Act Wouldn't Make the Internet Safer for Users

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItSection 230 Protects Intermediaries That Host Speech:Section 230 Protects Users Who Create Content:Harm to Data Privacy:Increased Censorship:Unintended Burdens on a Complex Ecosystem:As it stands, the injunctive relief exception to Section 230 poses a real danger to legitimate speech. Share ItCourts and legislatures around the globe are hotly debating to what degree online intermediaries—the chain of entities that facilitate or support speech on the internet—are liable for the content they help publish. One...

February 26, 2021
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Arizona High Court Misses Opportunity to Uphold Internet Users’ Online Privacy

Arizona High Court Misses Opportunity to Uphold Internet Users’ Online Privacy

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages on its servers for as long as your workspace exists, Slack is now giving free workspace admins the option to automatically delete all messages older than 90 days....Earlier this week, EFF, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Demand Progress expressing our concerns about H.R. 3962, The Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2021 or SECURE Notarization Act....

January 29, 2021
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California City’s Effort to Punish Journalists For Publishing Documents Widely Available Online is Dangerous and Chilling, EFF Brief Argues

California City’s Effort to Punish Journalists For Publishing Documents Widely Available Online is Dangerous and Chilling, EFF Brief Argues

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January 8, 2021
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The U.S. Government Is Targeting Cryptocurrency to Expand the Reach of Its Financial Surveillance 

The U.S. Government Is Targeting Cryptocurrency to Expand the Reach of Its Financial Surveillance 

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItOne of the most important aspects of cryptocurrencies from a civil liberties perspective is that they can provide privacy protections for their users. But EFF is concerned that the U.S. government has been increasingly taking steps to undermine the anonymity of cryptocurrency transactions and importing the widespread financial surveillance of the traditional banking system to cryptocurrencies.  Share ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages...

December 21, 2020
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